Tree or trees that have been uprooted or broken off by the wind Also known as blow down
Unexpected legacy; money which has come de coelo Some of the English nobility were forbidden by the tenure of their estates to fell timber, all the trees being reserved for the use of the Royal Navy Those trees, however, which were blown down were excepted, and hence a good wind was often a great godsend
a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line"
Sudden, unexpected profit caused by events not controlled by the beneficial person or company For example, oil companies and their shareholders in the 1970s earned windfall profits because of oil prices increases